Materials Challenges

What are Materials Challenges?

Materials Challenges are platforms for pre-competitive research that tackle underlying scientific questions essential to Swiss industry. Rather than several projects running in parallel, each Materials Challenge is a single research platform involving one or ideally more academic partners that:

tackles underlying scientific questions critical to the future of Swiss industry, addressing long term research needs

is co-piloted with industrial partners

prepares and trains the next generation of researchers creating a recruitment base for the industry

seeds enduring collaborations and strengthens existing collaborations

promotes scientific interaction within the ETH Domain and CSEM, and, in the case of physical platforms for analysis or testing, promotes access of researchers throughout the ETH Domain and CSEM

Challenges are co-funded by CCMX and industry partners for five years, after which time a structure should be in place for industry to continue supporting mid-term research in materials sciences and engineering.